Kelsey Local Media Blog
This Red Herring article examines the traffic modeling technologies being baked into the navigation systems of Tele-Atlas and Navteq. These are mostly in-car nav systems, but since these two companies are the primary data providers for every major online mapping…
Topix, the news aggregator owned by Tribune, Gannett and (probably) McClatchy, is teaming up with ShopLocal to distribute its retail ads to users on a hyperlocal basis. ShopLocal, a provider of onliner circulars and other local ad services, is owned…
Real estate-related Internet advertising will reach US$2 billion in 2006, or 17.7 percent of all real estate spending, according to a new report from Borrell Associates. The report predicts online will jump to 32.1 percent of all real estate spending…
We reported in a recent news roundup that smartphone adoption is on the rise. This could be a boon for mobile local search adoption, given hardware features (keypad, larger screen, etc.) that are more conducive to some MoLo applications (see…
IAC/InterActiveCorp's Entertainment Book is beginning to make more use of online coupons and exploring better synergies with other IAC divisions. Traditionally, the book has relied solely on direct-to-consumer sales. Local books are typically sold for $24.95 to $45, and proceeds…
Tribe.net is being sold to NBC. The sale marks the official end of an era for a service that at one time was determined to bring Friendster-like social networking to the local level via various city "tribes" run by newspapers,…
Today I had the chance to speak with Andy Halliday, CEO of recently launched OurStory — a post-launch follow-up to our initial discussion back in May. The site falls into the social networking category but has an interesting way of…
Google has long since seeped into the mainstream lexicon as a verb. Now it's official.
Backfence, the hyper-local news and information site operating in several Washington D.C. suburbs and the Bay Area, is expanding. Chicago will be its third metro area, and it is continuing to go deeper into the suburbs of its existing markets.I…
Ingenio has linked up with Web search engine Find.com to provide pay-per-call listings in its search results. Pay-per-call is getting more and more attention these days as a valuable source of performance-based marketing, online and off. Click-to-call (the basis of…
DSL subscribers have surpassed cable modem subscribers, according to a survey by The Pew Internet & American Life Project.Pew Director Lee Rainie, speaking June 29 at The Media Giraffe conference at The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, said it was…
A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to interview InfoSpace's senior director of emerging products, Joe Herzog, and product management director, Ron Winter. The company has an interesting strategy with parallel initiatives in online search and in mobile products,…
Social media driven news site Digg has gotten a facelift and some added functionality. John Battelle takes a closer look and speculates on possible future enhancements and plug-ins for the site. The viral success the site has enjoyed makes this…
The American Press Institute's $2.7 million Newspaper Next project is nearing completion on six innovation test beds and getting ready to share its findings with the rest of the newspaper industry in September, according to Managing Director Steve Gray, who…
The Tyee, a community site based in Vancouver, BC, is pursuing a rich base of community advertisers and foundations left behind by the "establishment" views of CanWest, the publisher of The Vancouver Sun and other Canadian titles.CanWest is a local…
Here are a handful of news items to round out the week:—Google is moving further down the social search path by allowing users to tag video content with comments, ratings and labels. Search Engine Watch explains. —Microsoft has come out…
Mobile coupon engine Cellfire launched yesterday for Cingular users. The tracking and marketing benefits that online and mobile coupons offer will make this a big area of development in the local space over the next year. As more third-party software…
As the owner of a small business, I have always been interested in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Therefore, I was pleased to read that Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, was honored by E&Y with…
Google's long-awaited online payment system launched today, which, among other things, will enable better tracking by closing the loop on search and online conversions. There is obviously a lot more to it, which we'll get the chance to explore later.…
Some notable happenings from around the local search and media worlds this week:—MapQuest launched the beta version of a new tool today that helps road-trippers plan routes. It includes some new Ajax functionality to drag and drop points on a…
